I was a member of MENSA for a decade or so. A good way of socializing when new to an area. Most of the folks were OK. I stopped renewing membership as I wasn't going to any events. Now and then the send me a letter asking me to renew.

--------------"It's as if all those words, in their hurry to escape from the loony, have fallen over each other, forming scrambled heaps of meaninglessness." -damitall

That's so fucking stupid it merits a wing in the museum of stupid. -midwifetoad

Vax? Nay! 3/19/09 1:20 PM "Can you show us a single individual with an IQ +1SD that does not understand the scientific method? "

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"No more BS "no statistical correlation has been found", no more "no peer reviewed study has proven", no more dancing and ducking and evading the obvious solution of actually putting the scientific method to work. Interpolation and extrapolation aren't sufficient. Statistical analysis isn't enough. Peer reviewed metastudies are of zero value. Pump 1,000 kids full of toxinsvaccines according to the complete schedule and leave a control group of 1,000 completely unvaccinated. Then report on how they're doing every six months. There's no excuse not to do it, it's eminently doable."

Invisible Pink Unicorn: 4/28/09 10:26 AM:Also, nice lumping together of Socrates, Russell, Dawkins, and Jesus-scorning, like they all go together, as if those four address the same intellectual problems.

You clearly failed to understand the point. Jesus Christ - or whoever wrote his dialogue, if you prefer - is clearly operating at a more formidable intellectual level than Socrates, Russell, or Dawkins. Those jokers couldn't even handle me, let alone Paul or Augustine.

rich just lemme say I am glad that you are keeping this mine open. in tough times the seams run thin at UD and TT, regulations and arbitrary mine owners keep the union guys out, 404 explosions pollute the air with the dust of oil soaked straw homos, but in those days Vox Day is like a breath of fresh tard. i just wanted to thank you for that. and ask you to find some more tard for me.

--------------You're obviously illiterate as hell. Peach, bro.-FtK

Finding something hard to believe based on the evidence, is science.-JoeG

rich just lemme say I am glad that you are keeping this mine open. in tough times the seams run thin at UD and TT, regulations and arbitrary mine owners keep the union guys out, 404 explosions pollute the air with the dust of oil soaked straw homos, but in those days Vox Day is like a breath of fresh tard. i just wanted to thank you for that. and ask you to find some more tard for me.

The VD mine is a good one. As an attractor for unhinged science-denying right wingers, its a top top draw.

His evo posts are the best. He doesn't like that evolution one bit. Its rubbish at predicting teh future, so its not proper science. He wont actually say what his view on origins are, presumably because teh return fire would be depleted uranium versus the peashooter he employs.

'Evolution is made up'. We dance the dance of the creationist canards, the Lucy twist, the Peppered Moth Jive. Then someone mentions ERVs, so his demented wife is put on high alert to delete any posts that mention these.

Look at it this way. X=designer and Y=design. We know Y exists, so it is equal to at least 1. Dawkins states that X MUST be greater than Y. I contradict and state that X may or may not be greater than Y. We don't have a value for X, but we do know that if there is no designer, then X=0, obviously. However, we know that 0 is not greater than 1, therefore Dawkins has to be incorrect.

Look at it this way. X=designer and Y=design. We know Y exists, so it is equal to at least 1. Dawkins states that X MUST be greater than Y. I contradict and state that X may or may not be greater than Y. We don't have a value for X, but we do know that if there is no designer, then X=0, obviously. However, we know that 0 is not greater than 1, therefore Dawkins has to be incorrect.

Christianity: the belief that some cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove some evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because some rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.